Chapter Forty-Eight: Learned
Li Bokang had nothing to do after they went out, so she sat at home for a while and then went to the field next to her, where she had to prepare the dishes for lunch.
When she came to the field, there were actually no other vegetables, and she had been growing some home-cooked ordinary food for the past two years. However, when I saw the flowering potato seedlings in the field, I thought that they had grown almost now, and they should have grown up. She planted a little late this year, and she didn't know what it was, so she went back and got a hoe to plow a few trees.
It is true that it has grown up, but it seems that it can still grow longer, so I only dug up four or five potato seedlings, and dug up about a dozen, some large and some small, which was enough for them to eat. Then they went back and started to prepare, and today they had to go back and make lunch early, in case it was late.
After talking about her, let's talk about the ones they went to the mountain, Li Bokang actually mainly played after they took the basket up the mountain, but occasionally he would pick it up and put it when he saw the fungus. Zhou Yi behind him was curious when they saw him picking it up, and they wanted to pick it up themselves, but they couldn't tell which one could be picked up and which one could not be picked up, but they would also look at it, so they looked everywhere for the same fungus as the one he picked up.
In this way, a few people picked up bacteria all the way to enjoy the scenery on the mountain, and also talked about the knowledge taught by Mr. when they were in the school. Suddenly, Chen Jun said: "Eh, have you heard, the Wu Juren in our county are going to get married this month, and they are married to the second daughter of the Jincheng Tongzhi family." At first, they didn't react to who the Wu Juren he was talking about, but Li Bokang quickly reacted. He is still relatively good at Wu Ruixuan, but there has been no news since he went to the capital to take the exam last year, and now he is very surprised to hear that he is going to get married.
It is undeniable that he is a little happy in his heart, and when he gets married, he can no longer rob him of people, and he will lose his qualifications. It's just that it's only been a long time since he is about to get married, and he will still be a little angry, he just said that he wanted to marry someone else, and he made a promise to marry someone else now. It's just that he also knows that he can't blame him, it's a good thing for him, but he just feels uncomfortable in his heart.
And now he has a strong curiosity about the letter that Yang Xue replied to him before, and he doesn't know what she replied to him, so that he gave up on her so quickly, and he was ready to marry someone else. He didn't forget to listen to their conversation even as he thought about it.
Here Zhou Yi asked Chen Jun: "Oh, are you talking about the Wu Juren who was admitted in our county the year before last?" "Yes, it's that Wu Juren." Chen Jun replied. Zhou Yi continued: "Eh, I remember how old that Wu Juren is this year, and it doesn't seem to be much older than us. "Wu Juren is twenty-four years old this year, he is not very old, and he is very powerful at his age." Chen Jun answered on the side.
"Yes, Wu Juren is very powerful. I heard that he was going to go on to take the exam, but the year before he took the exam, his mother died of illness, and he took another three years of filial piety before he went to the exam. During this period, I seem to have heard that a private school was opened. Zhou Yi began to answer again. At this time, Huang Sheng, who usually doesn't talk much, also said: "Yes, my father has always been talking about this Wu Juren in front of me, saying that he is good at learning and making me work hard." ”
After saying this, Zhou Yi asked with some curiosity: "By the way, do you know the results of Wu Juren's entrance examination in Beijing last year, I haven't heard any news about this." After speaking, he mainly looked at Chen Jun, Chen Jun and his father are county magistrates, so they should still have some understanding of these, and they vaguely know that his family has a relationship in Beijing.
Chen Jun really lived up to his expectations, and he didn't go around in circles with them and told them. "Well, I really know, I heard my father say that Wu Juren didn't pass the Beijing exam this time, and he was still a little short. But this is also expected, after all, he has not studied with his husband later. It's fate, if it hadn't happened back then, maybe it wouldn't have been like this. But in the end, he was still very lucky, he became the son-in-law of Jincheng Tongzhi, and I heard that the second daughter of Tongzhi's family is very beautiful. ”
During this period, Li Bokang didn't interject a word, just listened to them discuss, but he also got a few pieces of news through their words. The first is that Mr. was not admitted to the Jinshi last year, and the second is that the lady married by Mr. is the second daughter of the Jincheng Tongzhi family, and her identity is better, and Mr. is very important. However, he was still a little curious, and it seemed that he had not heard of the return of the gentleman until now, so he was ready to ask them.
Thinking about him, he said his words: "Since Wu Juren didn't pass the exam, it seems that I haven't heard the news of his return for more than a year." Hearing his words, Zhou Yi also felt a little puzzled, and then said: "Yes, it's been more than a year, and I haven't heard of him coming back." The atmosphere was silent for a while, and then Chen Jun said: "I seem to have heard my father say that he went out to study, and finally I seem to have heard that he went to the academy in Fucheng to prepare for the next exam." There seemed to be some uncertainty when he spoke, so his tone was not very sure.
They had come a long way, and the baskets they had brought with them were almost full, and a long time had passed. After a few more people walked around the mountain for a while, Li Bokang suggested that they go back. Chen Jun and the three of them were still a little unsatisfied, but they also knew that it was not too early, so they agreed to go back today.
It was almost noon when they returned home, and the driver sent by Chen Jun and his family to pick them up had already arrived. They had a good harvest, a basket of mushrooms, some prickly bubbles they picked on the road and some wild bayberry. They had already eaten a lot on the way, and the ones they brought back were still the ones Li Bokang said he picked up for Yang Xue to eat, and they picked up a lot of skirts and brought them back.
After returning home and resting for a while, I started to eat lunch. And during the time they went to the mountain, in addition to preparing the lunch meal, she also grabbed and bundled the chickens that were going to give them a gift in return.
Speaking of luck, she was also lucky, and when she was about to catch chickens, she saw the two coachmen who had sent Li Bokang and them back last time. The two were going to tie up the carriage and wait there, but when she saw them, she told them to rest and drink some water at home, after all, they had been on the road for so long, not to mention that they were guests from afar, no matter what their status was.
She also soaked them in water and was ready to catch the chickens after a while, but maybe the two of them were a little flattered or unaccustomed, so one of them asked her: "Girl, may I ask what we can help with, and if there is anything we can do, you can tell us to do it." "It's okay, you guys can rest for a while." She didn't think anything and just said it.
But the two insisted that she tell them to do something, and later they said that they were afraid that when the time came for their son to come back and see them resting and she was doing something, he would punish them, so they wanted to at least tell them to do something. Speaking of which, they can see that their son-in-law and Mr. Li get along very well, which is why they are like this.
In the end, she had no choice but to ask them to help her catch chickens, and she caught a total of three roosters and finished catching all the roosters in the house.